Raw Caramel Apples

Thank you to those who have been asking about my whereabouts in the past 3 days. You know me so well to know that something must have been up for me to not be around during MoFo/and my HAL*RAW*WEEN theme. The truth is that I poorly prepared for my niece’s visit from this weekend until today. Not sure what I was thinking (apparently I wasn’t) but I’m back, friends. Thank you again for the concern–oh boy, do I just heart you!

And to show you my appreciation, I made you some Raw Caramel Apples. Sans poison, I swear {I’m eating one right now just to prove that they are safe}.

For the caramel sauce:

Instructions

Drain the water from the dates. In a high speed blender, combine all ingredients for the Caramel Sauce until completely smooth. If you are having difficulties blending, simply add more nondairy milk by the teaspoon until it smooths out. Place into a bowl.

Insert the craft stick into apple.

Cover the apples evenly with the caramel date sauce. You don’t want globs of it because it will just fall off so gently coat it. Place in the freezer briefly to mildly firm up on the apples.

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i tried this recipe last night and sadly i was super disappointed with it. first of all, i knew i wanted to cover 2 bigger apples so i doubled the recipe, but even with it being doubled, it didn’t even reach/cover the bottom blades of my ninja blender. So no matter how many times i stopped the blender and tried to move all the ingredients around the blades it just failed repeatedly. i could have added like…..1/4 cup water to help the ingredients reach the blades better but then it would have just been too watery. so i added 1/4 cup caramel topping i already had in my fridge. it still turned out tasting fine, but i was bummed that i had to use the caramel i already had on hand. just wanted let anyone else know you may need to triple the recipe if you want it to work out in your blender.

Finding this website was fortuitous! My youngest daughter (who is 28) is a vegan who is incorporating more raw foods into her diet, since she was diagnosed with diabetes a few months ago. I wanted to get her something special for Xmas, like the cookies and things I make for everybody else in the family. The apples look wonderful and I can’t wait to make them!

I used to love caramel apples until I had a pretty unfortunate situation involving a caramel apple and braces, which turned me off of them completely. The more I look at these guys (I keep scrolling up and looking at them), the more I feel that old temptation coming back. Gorgeous photos too, Cara! 🙂

I really should make these for the hubs. I’ve always been a fan of those caramel apples dipped in chocolate, then nuts. I may be unfeeling but I wasn’t the least bit worried about you. I just figured you’d gone on a 3 day jaunt with your latest paramour. Although I suppose your niece might count too as being one of the big loves of your life. 🙂

OK, so the first time I read this, I was sitting at my boy’s swimming lesson being a dutiful Mom, naturally, and checking e-mail on my phone. It is not a smart phone which would have allowed me to see your beautiful pictures, it’s just an old regular flip phone that barely works indoors. So I’m sitting there reading about your niece and being glad you’re not under a bus somewhere and then I got to the coughing bit and I start to snicker and then there’s the gurgling part and I got a little louder and then I got to “Splat! And I’m dead.” and I laughed so loud the Grandpa next to me got up and moved. So there you go. You’ve alienated me from the elderly population of the boy’s swim lessons. Also, these look delicious.

You know what is so funny about that? The whole time I was trying to come up with words to describe my choking/death, all I could think about was “Man, I wish Brooke was here giving me funnier terms to write!”

Glad to hear you’re doing alright (and are still alive after that apple!). These are pure genius… I hate to say it, but I read the title and immediately jumped down to the recipe… raw caramel = amazing! Will definitely have to try it. 🙂

Trick or treat. There you are!! Glad to see you have risen, thought you might have had some poisonous coconut oil or something. or maybe ran your self through a dehydrater. or maybe had some publicity stunt gone awry.
You made up for your absense with these deadly pippins.

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